Building your online dating profile

· 20-Sep-2017 02:30

A year later, Altfest and Ross had a prototype, which they called Project , an acronym for Technical Automated Compatibility Testing—New York City’s first computer-dating service. She was the station’s first female reporter, and she had chosen, as her début feature, a three-part story on how New York couples meet.

Each client paid five dollars and answered more than a hundred multiple-choice questions. (A previous installment had been about a singles bar—Maxwell’s Plum, on the Upper East Side, one of the first that so-called “respectable” single women could patronize on their own.) She had planned to interview Altfest, but he was out of the office, and she ended up talking to Ross.

Men were asked to rank drawings of women’s hair styles: a back-combed updo, a Patty Duke bob.

Another question, in a section called “Philosophy of Life Values,” read, “Had I the ability I would most like to do the work of (choose two): (1) Schweitzer. (3) Picasso.” Some of the questions were gender-specific.

transferred the answers onto a computer punch card and fed the card into an I. In the beginning, was restricted to the Upper East Side, an early sexual-revolution testing ground.

Women were asked to look at a trio of sketches of men in various settings, and to say where they’d prefer to find their ideal man: in camp chopping wood, in a studio painting a canvas, or in a garage working a pillar drill. 1400 Series computer, which then spit out your matches: five blue cards, if you were a woman, or five pink ones, if you were a man.

Civilization, in its various guises, had it pretty much worked out.A study last year found wind turbines are killing hundreds of bats every year with researchers findings the animals are at more risk from their whirling blades than previously thought.Many of the turbines found to kill the animals have been given a clean bill of health in terms of environmental impact.When researchers scoured the areas around the turbines with dogs, they found large numbers of dead bats.Scientists at Exeter University, who conducted the study, are now calling for wind farm operators to switch off turbines at night in the summer.